Here are nine recent health IT vendor contracts and go-lives accelerating digital transformation efforts at healthcare organizations.

In recent years, the field of endoscopy has experienced incredible advances thanks to new cutting-edge procedures and technologies. These innovative and sophisticated endoscopic surgical techniques are designed to provide better patient outcomes and improved quality of life for individuals with a wide range of diagnoses. Only a limited number of medical centers, however, currently offer these treatments.

Amazon Web Services has launched a health accelerator to offer digital health startups resources, expertise and opportunities to collaborate with AWS healthcare customers and partners.

Amazon Halo's body fat percentage scanner gives just as accurate a reading of a person's body fat calculation as methods that physicians use, according to a recent study conducted by Massachusetts General Hospital and Pennington Biomedical Research Center. 

Digital health and tech adoption have skyrocketed since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, leaving many hospitals and health systems adopting technologies that support remote patient monitoring, two-way video communications and more. 

Former Athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush has created Zus Health, a new digital health platform that lets developers create tools and applications using a shared data record, according to a June 17 news release. 

Walmart is launching a free digital wallet that people can use to store and share their health information, starting with the COVID-19 vaccine record, the retail giant announced June 16. 

Remote care monitoring platform Current Health is the latest organization to join Moving Health Home, a healthcare coalition founded by Amazon Care, Intermountain and Ascension, Current Health said June 15. 

The use of digital COVID-19 vaccine passports, or proof of vaccination, has stirred concerns over privacy and practicality of the use of the technology in both private and public settings. 

Health systems have been pouring investment dollars into digital health startups, research efforts and internal innovation projects throughout 2021, though they often do not disclose the amount. For those that did, below are the five largest innovation investments health systems made in 2021:

Transcarent, a digital health platform for self-insured employers founded by former Livongo CEO Glen Tullman, recently secured a $58 million investment as part of its latest funding round. 

Washington, D.C.-based Children's National Hospital and Cerner are launching a digital health innovation accelerator as part of the organizations' pediatric health IT institute, according to a June 11 news release. 

California plans to soon launch an electronic system that will let businesses verify whether their customers have received their COVID-19 vaccinations in an effort to side step concerns tied to the term "vaccine passport," according to a June 11 San Diego Union-Tribune report. 

In March, New York became the first state to launch a COVID-19 vaccine passport through a contract with IBM, but the state may have bigger plans to expand the digital platform that could end up costing taxpayers millions of dollars, according to a June 9 New York Times report. 

With a $5 million grant from the Gates Foundation, Caption Health is building artificial intelligence-guided software to take precise, real-time photos of the heart, according to a June 9 report by The San Francisco Business Times.

The State University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse completed a yearlong project to test the use of drones in making medical deliveries, according to a June 7 Government Technology report. 

Boston Children's Hospital, Google and Ariadne Labs launched a new interactive, data-driven vaccine equity planning tool June 9 to help officials locate "vaccine deserts," or places with limited access to COVID-19 vaccines. 

UC Berkeley is auctioning off a non-fungible token called "The Fourth Pillar," which includes the scientific findings that led to the invention of cancer immunotherapy, San Francisco-based radio station KQED reported.

Mount Sinai Innovation Partners, the New York City-based health system's commercialization engine, launched Elementa Labs, a virtual incubator program to foster the growth of digital health startups.

Worcester, Mass.-based UMass Memorial Health and Cleveland-based University Hospitals are expanding care beyond hospital walls with recent rollouts of tech-powered hospital-at-home programs.